Applied AI/ML Engineer (TS/SCI)
Maxar Technologies2 days ago
Herndon, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, integrate, and evaluate AI/ML and data science solutions including spatio-temporal machine learning, data fusion, and semantic enrichment.
- Engineer and transform diverse data modalities across the AI/ML workflow, including multi-INT data with an emphasis on RF.
- Design and assess geospatial AI/ML solutions across hardware and software stacks.
- Apply current AI/ML advances to government mission challenges and support application prototyping and hardware-based implementation.
- Provide AI/ML subject matter expertise, mentorship, and strategic advice to government and internal teams.
- Communicate progress, results, risks, and challenges to government clients, partners, and project leadership.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship, an active TS/SCI clearance, and the ability to obtain a CI polygraph are required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related field is required.
- At least five years of experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying AI/ML models across diverse data modalities is required.
- At least two years of experience with time series analysis, spatial trajectory analytics, and/or state estimation is required.
- Strong experience with at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, TypeScript, Java, C, or C++.
- Proficiency with the Python data science and AI/ML stack and geospatial libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, GDAL, GeoPandas, and Shapely.
- Experience with remote sensing and geospatial datasets, sensor-based data streams, EO/SAR imagery, and government collection platforms.
- Experience with modern development practices, version control, and CI/CD, plus strong technical writing, speaking, organization, and attention to detail.
- Advanced degree in a relevant technical field is preferred.
- Cloud platform experience with AWS or Azure, multimodal models and agentic workflows for spatio-temporal data and overhead imagery, geospatial trajectory processing and visualization, and compute hardware or infrastructure design are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The role is listed as onsite.
- The application window is three days from the posting date and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
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About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.